Hampton says she wants to run with Bevin for re-election

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s lieutenant governor says she needs one other term in office, but Republican Gov. Matt Bevin has no longer said if he’ll lend a hand her.

Jenean Hampton suggested the Bowling Green On day by day basis Facts in an odd interview she believes she has executed a “amazing job” and might per chance presumably well be “a shoo-in.” Nonetheless whereas Bevin has said he’ll explore a 2nd term in November, he has but to file for the bustle and has no longer said whether Hampton will likely be his working mate.

“At this point, I would bewitch to assist … but that’s the governor’s name. I purchased into this depart with a prayer (and) I will lumber wherever the spirit leads,” she said. “I’m simply waiting on” Bevin.

Bevin has said over and over he’ll flee for re-election in November, no subject no longer elevating money for an election that is no longer as a lot as eleven months away. Democrats are lining as a lot as space him, with Attorney Popular Andy Beshear elevating bigger than $1.Sixteen million up to now and command House Minority Leader Rocky Adkins elevating bigger than $620,000. Previous Auditor Adam Edelen launched his campaign final week and has one in all his first fundraisers this week.

Bevin has been noncommittal when asked who his working mate will likely be. Requested if Bevin might per chance presumably lend a hand Hampton, the governor suggested the newspaper: “We’ll look.”

“It’s no longer a given that I will, and it’s no longer a given that I obtained’t,” Bevin said. “She is a in actuality dear buddy for whom I grasp gargantuan respect. She’s been an even searching lieutenant governor.”

The newspaper reported Hampton used to be disappointed in her tenuous space, but said her time as lieutenant governor has been “one in all basically the most joyous assignments of my 40-365 days profession.”